The WRAP Names Bubba Ho-Tep #1 Mummy Movie of All Time

The Wrap called Bubba Ho-tep the #1 Mummy film of all time!

Thank you, thank you very much. TheWrap's William Bibbiani has ranked the 10 greatest mummy movies ever made … and sitting atop the sarcophagus, cape sparkling and soul intact, is our very own Bubba Ho-Tep.

Don Coscarelli's 2002 cult classic beat out nearly a century of bandaged competition. That includes Boris Karloff's Universal original (1932) at #4, Hammer's Christopher Lee / Peter Cushing showdown (1959) at #6, and Stephen Sommers' Brendan Fraser–Rachel Weisz blockbuster (1999) at #3 ….along with Steve Buscemi in Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990), Fred Dekker and Shane Black's The Monster Squad (1987), Christopher Walken's Irish bog chiller The Eternal (1998), Bill Fagerbakke as Disney's lovable ghoul in Under Wraps (1997), and Lee Cronin's gore-soaked 2026 reboot. Egypt's own neo-realist masterpiece The Night of Counting the Years (1969) came in at #2.

Bibbiani calls Coscarelli's film an "eccentric but earnest horror comedy about the end of life," praising a finale with genuine emotional weight and, yes, actual tears.

And this is starting to feel like a trend: back in February, Dread Central's Anastasia Elfman crowned Bubba Ho-Tep her #1 mummy movie too… calling it a "unique masterpiece" which means two of horror's biggest outlets now agree there's no beating the King.

Read the full analysis here.